C.3.11 Changes in Release 3.23.49 (14 February 2002)

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For a MERGE table, DELETE FROM
merge_table used without
a WHERE clause no longer clears the mapping
for the table by emptying the .MRG file.
Instead, it deletes records from the mapped tables.